Crow hunting questions

Originally Posted by todd allen

I think the tallest shot was 90 yds, straight up. Lotsa lead!
I patterned the 10 ga. @ 90yds, and the pattern was pretty skimpy, even with 2 oz. of #7's.

-- any game or varmint bird dead over head is a nice cross shaped target- but the lead, the "Hun In The Sun" factors on bright days, and the direct recoil on the shoulder pocket downward-almost akin to the greater felt recoil on the shoulder with a center fire rifle in the Military prone position- One of the many ways to control felt recoil is position- I love incomers- if you blot out the bird with the muzzles and remember to keep them moving, the bird flies right into the pattern- BINGO-- the temptation is to stop and look and check your apparent lead- usually resulting in a miss-

I went out this afternoon, bright sunny end of Feb. 34 degrees SE wind about 5 mph- and shot silo cruising barn pigeons- I used my 3E 12 Smith- 28" Mod and Full- but tried some Fiocchi no. 8 spreader loads a pal gave me- 1 & 1/8 oz. 1175 fps- darn good shooting- I shot about 7 of his speader loads, varying with one spreader in either barrel and a std. AA Trap 1 & 1/8 oz. no. 8 in the other-I am not a great one to alter existing chokes in my shotguns, and these spreader loads performed rather well for me in that Smith- haven't tried a pattern test with them yet-